15 Bible Verses About Human Dignity

Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the Lord: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.

And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.

The rich and poor meet together: the Lord is the maker of them all.

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?

Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Thou shalt not kill.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.